In 2021, the same design was used to land Perseverance, and the team was actually able to capture video of the daring descent. Mars Sample Return is humanity’s first mission to bring scientific ...
Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from ... the US sent a spacecraft to briefly land on an asteroid and collect material.
For nearly four years, NASA's Perseverance rover has journeyed across an unexplored patch of land on Mars—once home to an ancient river delta—and collected a slew of rock samples sealed inside ...
NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth, but the agency won't pick a winner for another 18 months or so. Analysis of those samples, which are being collected by ...
After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA "pulled the plug" and is focusing on two ...